Amazing vintage photographs of high street shopping

Vintage photographs depicting shopping in high street favourites Marks and Spencer, BHS, Selfridges & John Lewis through the years.

Selfridges display a dress in the window during clothes rationing in 1941

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Now there is no need to go out to the supermarket - you can have fresh food delivered to your door

Shares in Morrisons are up 50 percent so far this year, valuing the business at 5.2 billion pounds.

Shares in online grocery company Ocado, which has its own agreement with Morrisions, fell more than 5 percent.

Bernstein analyst Bruno Monteyne, who has a "market perform" rating on Morrisons, said: “For Morrisons this broadens the offer and gives them more ways to reach customers online where they are still in the early stages of development.

“For Amazon this is one of a vast number of things they are trialling.”

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Amazon Prime customers can order groceries from Morrisons and have them delivered the same day

The partnership put pressure on Ocado shares.

Morrisons also has a distribution deal with Ocado that sees Morrisons products delivered to customers from Ocado's distribution centers.

That agreement was renegotiated in August allowing Morrisons to extend home delivery to its customers across the country using its own stores to provide products.